From the Rolls-Royce experimental archive: a quarter of a million communications from Rolls-Royce, 1906 to 1960's. Documents from the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation (SHRMF).
Coachbuilder recommendations on car body support points and suggesting a design delay.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 74\1\ scan0081 | |
Date | 14th November 1911 | |
Copy 81st meeting Re Attached. Please receive reports following visits to Coachbuilders with Mr Oldham. As none of the Coachbuilders recommend supporting a body on 4 points (points under door pillars) I suggest we wait experiments now being made with frame ties etc. before designing a body of such necessarily increased weight, capable to support itself, yet which in coachbuilders opinion, would not be satisfactory if supported on 4 points. sgd. R.D.Spinney. | ||